Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

if need be, take the vice president to the wood shed.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.